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Hello folks! I have a question with regards to clues - certain other  frameworks, most notably Spock and Hamcrest, when an assertion fails they show the data under test that failed, by default. Is there any way to do this in Kotest without having to wrap everything in clues?

Isn't this already the case by default? Do you have an example of a test that doesn't behave like this?

```        test("test list contains all elements"){
            val strings = listOf("One", "two", "three")
            strings.shouldContainAll("One", "two", "three","four")
        }```
gives me

Collection should contain all of ["One", "two", "three", "four"] but was missing ["four"]

to make it into a better example,
```        test("test list contains all elements"){
            val strings = listOf("One", "two", "three","five")
            strings.shouldContainAll("One", "two", "three","four")
        }```
kotest tells me that `four` is missing, but I have no clue that a `five` has snuck in

on the other hand `
```shouldContainExactly```
behaves in the expected way

Well, you're asking Kotest to check that these elements are in the list, you did not say you don't want any other elements

In this case I think what you want to test is `shouldContainExactly` , or even just `shouldBe`

that's not quite what I want though :slightly_smiling_face: I want feedback on what is there, irrespective of the matcher.

(without having to write clues boilerplate)

If you use `assertSoftly` it creates the clue automatically IIRC

you mean like so?
```            assertSoftly(strings){
                shouldContainAll("One", "two", "three","four")
            }```

Yes, I think this prints the entire list? I'm not 100% sure

Ah, it could probably be a feature request to have `assertSoftly` imply `withClue`

yeah probably.even with `asClue` the output is nowhere near as nice by default as with the `shouldContainExactly`

```[One, two, three, five]
java.lang.AssertionError: [One, two, three, five]```

just trying to save keystrokes and frustration :laughing:

I created an issue for it, please upvote :slightly_smiling_face: <https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/3418>